The resistance dilemma place-based movements and the climate crisis

"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hoberg, George, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2021]
Colección:American and comparative environmental policy
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Sumario:"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving policy forward, but it might also indirectly threaten the clean energy transformation needed to address the climate crisis"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262367158
9780262367165